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African women narrating identity : local and global journeys of the self

Title

African women narrating identity : local and global journeys of the self / Rose A. Sackeyfio.

Author

Sackeyfio, Rose A.

Publication

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.
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Description

viii, 192 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

"This book examines the complexities of women's lives in Africa and the transnational spaces of Europe and North America through the literary works of key African women writers. Using a postcolonial analytical framework, the book highlights the commonalities of African women's identities and experiences across national, ethnic, linguistic, and religious boundaries in Africa and in western settings. It collates the multi-regional narratives of key African women writers who convey how women's lives are shaped by social, economic, and political factors at home and abroad. It also illustrates the intersection of ethnicity, class, and gender that flows through all the texts examined. Unlike existing works that explore African women's fiction, this book uncovers the transformation from postcolonial themes of nationhood to global modalities of post-independence writing through the lens of gender. The book engages with feminist expression through broad themes including religion, war and ethnic conflict, women's status in society, tradition and modernity and local and global tensions. A unique approach to literary criticism of Anglophone African women's writing, this book will be of interest to scholars and students in the field of African Literature, African Studies, Women's Literature, Postcolonial Literature, Cultural and Ethnic Studies and Migration and Diaspora Studies"--

Series Statement

Routledge studies in African literature

Uniform Title

Routledge studies in African literature.

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Feminist Perspectives from the African Continent -- Introduction: Literary Herstories of African Women's Lives -- Radical Feminist Synergy and Sexual Exploitation in Nawal El Saadawi's -- Woman at Point Zero and God Dies by the Nile -- Caste, Class, and Women's Identity in Bessie Head's Maru -- Sisters of the Soil: Women's Resistance in Muthoni Likimani's -- Passbook Number F. -- Postcolonial Disjunctures and Urban Spaces in Amma Darko's Faceless -- Voices from the Diaspora in African Women's Fiction -- Unveiling Women's Identities in the African Muslim Diaspora in Leila -- Aboulela's Translator and Minaret -- Ruptured Spaces of the Self in We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo -- Black Venus Dreams and the Migrant Body in Igiaba Scego's Adua -- Afropolitan Energies in the 21st Century: Immigrants, Dreamers, and -- Marginalized Others in Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -- Conclusion: Narrating African Women's Lives in Africa and the Diaspora.

Call Number

ReCAP 24-2484

ISBN

9781032395388
1032395389

LCCN

2023006520

OCLC

1369401703

Author

Sackeyfio, Rose A., author.

Title

African women narrating identity : local and global journeys of the self / Rose A. Sackeyfio.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.

Copyright Date

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge studies in African literature

Routledge studies in African literature.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1900-2099

Local Subject

Black author.

Other Form:

Online version: Sackeyfio, Rose A. African women narrating identity Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023 9781003350200 (DLC) 2023006521

Research Call Number

ReCAP 24-2484

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